Jackie Curtis announced nonbinary identity to the Times in 1969-70.

Evidence

In the realm of ideas, anything was possible. What couldn’t be over if you wanted it? “I’m not a boy, not a girl, just me, Jackie,” Jackie Curtis told the New York Times, which used the quote for a Sunday piece on John Vaccaro’s production of Jackie’s play Heaven Grand in Amber Orbit, a brothel-set, amphetamine-fueled collage of old movie lines, TV commercials, and popular songs that Vaccaro turned into a musical and in which Jackie starred until fired by Vaccaro. — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 1529

Categorization

• CANDY: ‘I’m not a boy, not a girl, just me, Jackie’ is a striking, early public statement of nonbinary identity worth sharing.
• XREF: connects to: The Times framed peasant communists as stupid folk needing fascist remedy — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order: How Economists…, 1723